Best Albanian war movies

In an orphanage in Tirana at the beginning of the Second World War during the occupation by the Italian fascists, a group of boys make plans to rebel against the despotic director and the oppression by the management.

Tomka is a boy who likes playing football with his friends. When the German army captures his town, the German soldiers establish their camp in the town stadium. Tomka with help from his friends and their parents organizes sabotage actions against the soldiers.

After Mato Gruda, a man living in a remote village in the mountains of Albania, steals a cannon abandoned by the German invaders he has to decide whether to use the weapon to support the Partisan resistance or to avenge his family.

Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.

In Fascist Albania 1942, Albanian partisans will do all they can to remove the Italian fascists from their country.

An old gardener tends for the flowers during the war. Nazis ask him for flowers for their dead.

Dear Enemy tells the true story of the director’s grandfather who became friends with a German officer during the WWII German occupation of Albania while hiding a partisan, an Italian soldier and a Jewish watchmaker in his cellar.

Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until wounded partisans, sheltered in the village, will retreat deeper and snow will cover their tracks. Face to face with the Germans and their control of the village, women, led by mother Shano and mother Mara, depart to make a pile of wood, but actually bring bread and food to the partisans.

Jeta is a student who is a member of the illegals and tries to create a group of antifascist girls in her school.

On the anniversary of the death of Commissioner Ibrahim Kovaçi, six of his war friends are accompanying his statue to his native village, where a ceremony will be held. During the road, each of them remembers moments related to the life of Ibrahim.

Three years after the fascist occupation, a group of children create the anti-fascist organization called "Debatik". Coli, an orphan boy, manages to become a member.

World War II. Patriot Jonuz Bruga has troubles with his young son, Selim, who leads an immoral lifestyle and does not support the anti-fascist war, while his brothers fight in the city's guerrilla units.

World War II. A group of kids try to sabotage the enemy whichever way they can.

A driver is tasked with sending weapons illegally to the partisan soldiers.

World War II. The fascists kill a boy and invite his mother to identify the body, but she refuses.

Year 1943. A group of soldiers, carrying an injured comrade, are trying to reach the hospital.

After his father is killed, a young boy decides to join the partisans and fight in the war.

The Balkans 1443 . After a long successful military experience in the Turkish army, the reputation of the young Kastriota reached Albania and people began to hope in his return to his homeland, from which he was taken away as a child. When the Sultan gives the hero the task of facing János Hunyadi, Kastriota will start a journey towards finding his true self and choosing his path.

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A serbian young girl visits Albania in search of the roots of an old story about her Grandpa during the War of 1941. She falls in love with an albanian guy, starting an "impossible" relationship between two nations divided by war.

A film set during World War II - a small partisan unit must ambush a German convoy.

Story depicting the national liberation struggle of the Albanian people against the Italian and German invaders during World War II.

During WWII in Albania, partisans assassinate the collaborationist Colonel Makareci and destroy an enemy arsenal, but betrayal leads to guerrilla fighter Drita to be captured. When Pedro is ordered to execute her to prove loyalty, he reveals his identity and comrades mount a daring rescue, capturing the fascist police chief.

In the middle of a harsh winter, a partisan soldier goes to deliver supplies to a hospital.

The events of film take place in the first days of May 1942 when Albania was under fascist occupation.The enemy is trying by all means to discover the leadership of the Communist Party of Albania wipe it out along with the people's National Liberation Movement. In this grave situation,the communists are faced with counter attack. The film reflects the stormy days of war, the ferocity of the enemy and the strength of the Party and the people who remain undaunted by terror and violence.

World War II. Albania is under the Nazi occupation. The Germans capture two young girls and torture them to learn more about the communist movement.

At the center of the film is a patriot photographer, who sees how the city moves on the eve of invasion by focusing his camera at the heroic resistance of the people.

During WWII, Qemal Orhanaj exposes the attempts of the pseudo-democrats and traitors of the country to create their government backed by the Nazis.

Film set during the Albanian Renaissance, focusing on a group of Albanian outlaws fighting against the Ottoman Empire.

World War II. The anti fascist youth attracted broad masses of the people on the football fields turning these sport events into manifestations against the occupiers. Such were the matches between the amateur team "Shprefeja" and the fascist teams. Entering the field with the conviction that they will beat the fascist team at all costs, the Albanian players and its supporters turn the sport field into a battlefield.

A group of partisan girls and women go on a journey in order to take part in the first Congress of the Anti-Fascist Women in Berat.

World War II - a famous warrior and a villager face the destruction of their village and heroically lead the people in a rebellion.

Film about the 5 Heroes of Vig, who died in a bloody battle during the National Liberation War.

In the first day of liberation, partisan Meke enters the palace where the king used to live.

Three cloaked partisans are carrying out their duty in the harsh winter. During the way, they are disovered by the Germans.. The shepherd, Xhemo use a brave trick to save them, thus risking his life.

This movie is set at the start of World War II, with little shepherds on the green slopes of an Albanian mountain range featured as intrigued, distant observers of the Italian army and their prey, the partisan fighters who are hiding in the homes of the villagers. Even the Albanian police who are supposed to be helping the Italians do not betray the resistance fighters when they see them. The children watch as the hunter and hunted play out their drama below, not understanding that the scenes are more real than their own hunt for the five-legged rabbit that is supposed to be living in these hills. As the tragedies of war mount, the children start to become more involved - at one point they steal the weapons from some drunken Italian soldiers, nearly leading to a disaster on their part. Time and events rapidly unfold, and it soon becomes apparent that their innocence will not last for long because their own existence is threatened in a way they are just beginning to understand.

The year is 1941, World War II is going on. Vaso returns to his village, helping the revolt of the villagers against the enemy. Marko, his brother, wants to get revenge against the people who took his fiancée. This revenge becomes part of the overall revolt.

World War II. Italian fascists have interned in the South a lot of people who fought them on the 7th of April 1939 when they came to Albania. Among them, there's an old man whom they call "Daja" (uncle), who fought along with the youth.

Met Sokoli is a young pioneer who fights against a band of saboteurs entering Albania.

A wounded Greek partisan is helped by Albanian partisans and hidden in the house of an old woman, but his life is still in danger due to the presence of Nazis.

World War II. Italians accuse the residents of a village in South Albania of giving signals to the Greeks during the Greek-Italian War.

It is the Fall of 1944. Events take place in the newly liberated Berat. A group of partisans are charged with the task of normalizing the life in the liberated city during this first night of freedom.

A small village during World War II. Driven by misery some peasants smuggle goods across the mountain frontier. Thus an ever-greater gap opens between them and those who are fighting the invaders.

During WW2 partisans try to hide from their enemies, while old villagers mourn the deceased of the war.

Conceived as a political pamphlet, developed in a rhetorically grotesque vein, the film deals with the activity and the shameful end of the traitor organization of Balli Kombetar during WW2 in Albania.

War film written and directed by Rikard Ljarja.